The Office of the Vice Provost for Research meets frequently with divisional colleagues to strategically plan Johns Hopkins’ research infrastructure. Together with Denis Wirtz, Sue Porterfield, Alexandra McKeown, Julie Messersmith and Vice Provost and Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Jon Links, these divisional research leaders constitute the Research Oversight Committee.
The Research Oversight Committee’s mission is to provide strategic oversight, coordination, and support to the schools and units to: provide the requisite scientific infrastructure to maximize the rate of discovery and dissemination of new knowledge; and provide research administrative support that facilitates responsible and efficient research with a minimal diversion of faculty time from their research and scholarship.
Dr. Filipe Campante
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
School of Advanced International Studies
Filipe Campante is the Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of International Economics in SAIS and at the Department of Economics at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs at SAIS. Campante is interested in political economy, development economics, and urban/regional issues.
Dr. Gregory Kirk
Vice Dean for Research
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Gregory Kirk serves as the associate dean for research in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, as a professor in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School, and has a joint appointment in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the School of Medicine. His research examines the natural history of viral infections — particularly HIV and hepatitis viruses — in the U.S. and globally. As part of the ALIVE (AIDS Linked to the Intravenous Experience) study, his research looks at a range of pathogenetic, clinical behavioral issues, with a special focus on non-AIDS-related outcomes of HIV, including cancer and liver and lung diseases.
Dr. Goker Aydin
Vice Dean for Faculty and Research
Carey Business School
Goker Aydin serves as the vice dean for faculty and research in the Carey Business School and as a professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics. Using mathematical models to gain insights into inventory and pricing decisions, Goker’s research is driven by the demand and supply uncertainty facing both retailers and their suppliers. His recent research deals with how firms can proactively manage the supply risk, with a particular focus on the role of social responsibility initiatives in improving supply chain performance.
Dr. Christopher Cannon
Vice Dean for Humanities & Social Sciences
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
As vice dean for humanities and social sciences, Christopher Cannon serves as a liaison with the chairs of all humanities and social science departments, assisting in faculty hiring and retention, and support the dean in furthering the mission of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture in the Departments of English & Classics, he is a scholar of language and literature and one of the world’s leading experts on 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Dr. Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Vice Dean for Natural Sciences
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
As the vice dean for natural sciences, Bertrand Garcia-Moreno serves as liaison with the chairs of the school’s natural science departments to ensure the highest quality undergraduate experience, as well as to think through space planning and infrastructure needs and opportunities for interdisciplinary endeavors. He is a professor of biophysics in the Krieger School, his main interests are currently focused on experimental and computational protein science, including: electrostatics, structure-based energy calculations, pH effects, engineering of pH switches and evolution and stability in extreme environments.
Dr. Amy Shelton
Associate Dean for Research
School of Education
Amy Shelton is a professor and associate dean for research in the School of Education and the director of research for the Center for Talented Youth. She holds a joint appointment in the School of Medicine and serves on the steering committees for the university-wide Science of Learning Initiative. Her research in cognitive psychology/cognitive neuroscience focuses on spatial skills, individual differences and mechanisms of learning, couched in the broad context of understanding the characterization and needs of the individual learner.
Thomas Burns
Assistant Dean for Research Affairs
Executive Director for Research Administration
School of Medicine
Thomas Burns was named the Assistant Dean for Research Affairs and Executive Director for Research Administration in 2019. In that role he oversees the Office of Research Administration for the School of Medicine, providing support and expertise to the faculty and facilitating the flow of sponsored research funds to the School through grants, contracts and other sponsored research agreements. After a career in private practice, he joined Johns Hopkins University in 2008 serving the faculty of the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health in various roles. He holds a J.D. and an M.B A. and has been a frequent presenter for NCURA and SRAI.
Dr. Gail Daumit
Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation
School of Medicine
Gail Daumit was named the vice dean for clinical investigation in the School of Medicine in 2021. She is a professor in the departments of medicine and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, as well as the Samsung Professor of Medicine. As part of this role, she is the Institutional Official for oversight of our human subjects research program. Among the opportunities that Dr. Daumit will pursue will be to assess the school’s programs through a customer lens in order to identify and address potential barriers for our patients and investigators to participate in clinical research.
Dr. Antony Rosen
Vice Dean for Research
School of Medicine
Antony Rosen oversees the School of Medicine’s multimillion-dollar biomedical research enterprise as the vice dean for research. He is the Mary Betty Stevens Professor of Medicine, Director of the Division of Rheumatology, and holds joint appointments in the departments of Pathology and Cell Biology. He is highly successful in recruiting and mentoring the next generation of clinical and translational investigators who are dedicating their careers to research that will provide new treatment options for patients living with rheumatic diseases. His expertise and research focuses on the mechanisms of autoimmune diseases, with particular emphasis on defining the role of autoantigens in rheumatic diseases such as scleroderma, lupus and arthritis.
Dr. Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb
Associate Dean for Research
School of Nursing
Cheryl Dennison Himmelfarb is the associate dean for research at the School of Nursing, where she is appointed in the Department of Acute and Chronic Care. Dr. Himmelfarb’s sustained passion and commitment to reducing health disparities and improving the quality of care and outcomes for cardiovascular and critical care patients is seen as a consistent thread throughout her progressive program of research, professional practice, and teaching. Research by Dr. Himmelfarb has led to the development of effective and transferable health system and interdisciplinary team-based strategies to improve the quality of cardiovascular care. She also serves as a deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translation Research.
Dr. Larry Nagahara
Associate Dean of Research
Whiting School of Engineering
Larry Nagahara joined the Whiting School of Engineering in 2015 as the associate dean of research. He was formerly the associate director in the Division of Cancer Biology at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. At NCI/NIH, Dr. Nagahara directed and coordinated program and research activities related to the expanding role of the physical sciences in cancer research, including the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center program. He previously served as the nanotechnology projects manager for the NCI’s Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, where he oversaw the development of promising nano-based diagnostics and therapeutics projects.
